Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.